Described by The New York Times as “an economist who teaches at the University of Washington and performs stand-up comedy”, Yoram Bauman performs as “the world’s first and only stand-up economist” at venues ranging from the New York Improv to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting, and also on YouTube, where his videos have had over 500,000 hits.

Bauman has a BA in mathematics from Reed College, a PhD in economics from the University of Washington, and spends his non-comedy hours teaching in the UW environmental studies program and researching the economics of climate change. He has authored and co-authored many books on economics, including Tax Shift, Quantum Microeconomics, and Quantum Microeconomics with Calculus as well as several articles in popular and scholarly publications, and the Cartoon Introduction series to topics such as economics and climate change.

He lives in Seattle, where he appears regularly at the Comedy Underground and runs a political comedy benefit show called Non-Profit Comedy that has raised over $40,000 for local non-profits. Bauman also acts as the Specialized Co-Editor for Miscellany of the journal Economic Inquiry. In 2008 his Supply Side World Tour included shows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Bank for International Settlements, Harvard University, and Oxford University.

Volume Two: Macroeconomics explains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country, and indeed the planet. It explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how economies grow and why economies collapse. It illustrates the basics of the labor market and explains what the GDP is and what it measures, as well as the influence of government, trade, and technology on the economy. Along the way, it covers the economics of global poverty, climate change, and the business cycle.

From the optimizing individual to game theory to price theory, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics is the most digestible, explicable, and humorous 200-page introduction to microeconomics you'll ever read.

What’s Funny About Economics? Humor from the world’s first and only stand-up economist. Comedy, Economics, and Climate Change A mixture of economics humor and serious material on climate change and how the tools of economics and capitalism can be used to address it. The Economics of Climate Change The threat of climate change and how the tools of economics and capitalism can be used to address it.

Praise for The Cartoon Introduction to Economics
“Learning economics should be fun. Klein and Bauman make sure that it is.”
—N. Gregory Mankiw, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, and author ofPrinciples of Economics

“Bauman and Klein present solid basic economics in a brilliant cartoon wrapper. The authors successfully shine a happy light on the dismal science.”
—Hugo Sonnenschein, Distinguished Service Professor and President Emeritus, University of Chicago

“For anybody who is genuinely interested in economics, who really wants to learn the jargon, or anyone who is starting out studying an economics course, this is just a brilliant source.”
—Tim Harford, author of Adapt

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